On January 1st, 2025, many published works will be entering the US public domain. Those would be all the works first published in 1929. This is an attempt to accumulate a body of likely-popular works so we can have people immediately working on things that interest them, on New Year's Day.
Non-fiction edit
- An Autobiography: or, The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Gandhi
- The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
- Magick in theory and practice by Aleister Crowley (external scan)
- The Vampire in Europe by Augustus Montague Summers
- The Munsell Book of Color ( and we can possibly use some later specification data in a journal to recalibrate the scans potentially.)
- A Modern Theory of Ethics: A study of the Relations of Ethics and Psychology by Olaf Stapledon
- A History of Costume by Carl Kohler, ed. Emma Von Sichart translated by Alexander K. Dallas
- Index:The Autobiography Of Calvin Coolidge.djvu request undeletion
Novels edit
- The Black Camel by Earl Derr Biggers
- The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen (UK/Ireland: died 1973)
- The Roman Hat Mystery by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee (as Ellery Queen)
- The Maracot Deep by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Patient in Room 18 by Author:Mignon Good Eberhart (1929) (external scan)
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Cimarron by Edna Ferber
- Borgia by Zona Gale
- Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov trans. by Natalie Duddington
- The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
- A Farewell to Arms (1929)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025 due to Renewal R177406 by Ernest Hemingway
- The Man in the Queue by Author:Elizabeth MacKintosh aka Josephine Tey
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Author:Erich Maria Remarque (1929), translated by Author:Arthur Wesley Wheen (1929)(British, died 1971)
- Graziella by Alphonse de Lamartine, translated by Ralph Wright (British, died ?)
- Planetoid 127 by Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1929) (British, died 1932)
Short stories edit
- "Rats" by M. R. James
- "Again the Ringer" by Edgar Wallace
- The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Again The Ringer. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
- Joining Charles and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (1929)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025 due to Renewal R187649 (UK: died 1973)
Poetry edit
- The Black Christ by Countee Cullen
- Further Poems by Emily Dickinson
- Cavender's House by Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Modred by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Drama edit
- The First Mrs. Fraser by John St. John Greer Ervine (external scan)
- Other Men's Wives by Walter C. Hackett (external scan)
- Rope by Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton This play served as the basis for the Hitchcock film.
- Dynamo by Eugene O'Neill (external scan)
- Street Scene by Elmer Rice Pulitzer Prize winner.
- The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw
Film edit
- Seven Keys to Baldpate (personal copy available)